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Here's how to identify the insects eating your garden leaves by the evidence they leave behind. If leafcutter bees are ...

Gardeners who have a tree stump rotting in their garden have been issued an urgent warning not to touch it or remove it. At ...

Public awareness will also be key to addressing the problem. Many pet owners do not know that their routine flea treatments ...

Did you know that the way weeds spread isn't your only woe? Some species can also attract pests to your yard. Discover which ...

Gardeners have been told to 'leave a dead tree in situ' and not to tidy up their gardens, as experts reveal the ways in which ...

They’re venomous cannibals, hiding in our homes. With something like fifteen quadrillion spiders around, we can’t escape them ...

Don Kinzler writes: "Premoistening mix is important because the ingredients in the growing mixes are dry and they’re often difficult to rewet." ...

Is there an effective treatment for crape myrtle bark scale? It’s not as bad as it was a few years ago, but I’d like to eliminate it.

Those with less income, they can’t spray enough pesticides to kill the eggs yet when they are left to hatch, we would need heavy funds and more efforts to kill them (caterpillars),” he said.

The nematodes breed inside the caterpillar, releasing more nematodes into the surrounding area which go on to kill more caterpillars ... It's also a way of monitoring when the moths are active in your ...